There has been some feedback, here and there on the new Paranoia game, but not an awful lot and I guess criticisms like these should be discussed. To answer the first question, yes, we probably did need a new edition. Mongoose as a company needs to make revenue from their license, while fans tend to...

Troupe style play is mostly discussed, as the game that coined the idea, in Ars Magica. In this game there are three tiers of character type: Magi (Wizards, very powerful), Companions (competent characters) and Grogs (Underlings, soldiers and servants). They collectively form a Covenant, which is a ...

Our group has started the Pirates of Drinax campaign, which I expect will take at least 6 months to complete, and I expect the Great Rift Box will be something of a dream campaign, when I get it too. In some respects I am well catered for. Future books, therefor aren't necessarily urgent, but I'll k...

Personally, I prefer the idea that Psionics are more egalitarian than inherited. I'd prefer to see it as some sort of cosmic energy that moves through everything, but some people are just more attuned to it than others. I don't see it as inherited (so, no psychic families), but more a case of awaren...

What determines a person's psi strength? (Other than a die roll, I mean.) At a guess genetics, like any other characteristic. Education and Social Standing aren't due to genetics. Psi isn't a definable characteristic in any case as it's fictional. The paradigm offered in the OTU is that everybody h...

For me, I don't think the issue is about Psionics per se, but I baulk against lazy, hand wavy sci-fi. Just saying 'the power of the mind' as a reason for having magical powers isn't enough and it takes away from the verisimilitude of the setting (including the OTU) a bit. I prefer a bit more paradig...

So, I'm talking about a really good index - that spans all the core books as a useful tool. Possibly akin to the indexes used in GURPS, for example. Could also be an index released as a stand alone PDF. Possibly quite useful in itself - especially if free. I am a completist, however, so including i...

One common complaint from fans, myself included, is that there is no Index in any of the Traveller 2nd Edition line to date. It does, I have to say, make some rules referencing difficult from books during gameplay. With the production of all four core books done, and their still apparently being som...

I allow psionic in OTU because it's part of the setting - but I have disappointed players before when they have been given permission to play a Psychic (as in a character choice, not just because of a random roll) and have ended up getting a mini-mortgage to pay off for the training. To me, that poi...

If you go and watch the recent Arrival movie there is, at it's heart, a philosophical rationale for time travel as expressed through the alien language. There is also a philosophical rationale in Interstellar too, to an extent. These are pretty much hard sci-fi movies. I think the key to time travel...

I think the Companion is proving to be the trickiest of Traveller supplements, from what it appears. Maybe they should return to the idea of making an indefinite series of Compendiums instead? Anyway, I'd like to see all the Major Races detailed in some fashion, along with Robots and A.I. to make a ...